The agency in question also provided few answers when asked to explain why it did not
investigate complaints against psychologists working in family and matrimonial courts.
The ethics committee are bound by their rules to
investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.
If you complain to your employer about sexual harassment, your employer is required to
promptly investigate your complaint and take appropriate action to prevent sexual harassment from recurring.
Although there is no independent duty to
investigate complaints of workplace discrimination employers should, nevertheless, take any complaint of workplace discrimination seriously.
The state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which disciplines judges, and the Office of the Managing Inspector General for Fiduciary Appointments, which
investigates complaints about court appointments, opened investigations in the wake of Newsday's reports.
As the person responsible
for investigating complaints about Ontario government services, you would expect André Marin to have his hands full, and he does.
The Board also
investigates complaints made by members of the public regarding possible abuses by Licensed Counselors, Social Workers & Marriage and Family Therapists.
A recent case from Alberta, Smith v Vauxhall Co-Op Petroleum Limited, 2017 ABQB 525, provides a helpful example of what an employer should not do
when investigating complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
In Malta, the ethics committee met repeatedly in 2013 and 2014 to
investigate a complaint filed against then - town clerk Flo Sickels, who was accused of making a deputy clerk campaign for Sickels and do other work for the Malta Republican Committee.
WILL DAVIDSON LLP is
currently investigating complaints from women suffering from serious post-surgical injuries after undergoing gynaecological or bladder repair surgery, where Johnson & Johnson's Gynecare Tension - free Vaginal Tape (TVT) was used.
Inspectors will also
not investigate complaints about the support received by individual children or young people or their families.
The body tasked
with investigating complaints against the police is unable to do its job and has perilously little public trust, an influential committee of MPs said today.
It has also been faulted as failing to
properly investigate complaints about conditions at factories, including one in Cambodia where hundreds of workers were sickened, and accused of cheating laborers of wages in Turkey.
The Syracuse City Council voted unanimously to override Mayor Stephanie Miner's veto and provide $ 15,000 for the Citizen Review Board to hire consultants to
help investigate complaints of police misconduct.
RoadTrip will no longer be authorised as a campaigning entity, a statement said, and the party's lawyers and disciplinary committee will continue to
investigate complaints received in relation to RoadTrip2015.
The functions of the teachers» colleges may include setting out clear standards of practice, providing for the ongoing education of teachers,
investigating complaints involving members, conducting hearings into allegations of professional misconduct and taking appropriate disciplinary action and accrediting teacher education programs.
The issue was whether amendments to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act establishing the Complaints Commission were retrospective such that the Commission could
investigate complaints into events that occurred before the Commission's creation.
The
ombudsman investigates complaints against statutory bodies that are subject to audit by the state comptroller, including government ministries, local authorities, government enterprises and institutions, government corporations, and their employees.
Despite the complaints from internet service providers, Facebook supposedly didn't
actively investigate the complaints, and thus its quality of service didn't meet South Korea's requirement of an «appropriate level.»
No matter what one thinks of the agency's recent «Dear Colleague letters,» it is hard to argue that the agency should
stop investigating these complaints and seeking redress for those that have merit.
For example, the Saskatchewan Human Rights
Commission investigates complaints about discrimination stemming from a list of prohibited grounds set out in the legislation (race, sex, religion etc.) If the Commission decides that an individual was wrongfully discriminated against because they drove a red car, then it has stepped outside its jurisdiction.
Most, if not all, employers are aware of the potential liability they face should they fail to
adequately investigate complaints made against them under the Ontario Human Rights Code («Code «-RRB-.
The Professional Responsibility
department investigates complaints of conduct unbecoming, incompetence, professional misconduct or incapacity with respect to a lawyer's practice of law.
In the first significant judicial review of a decision of the BC Health Professions Review Board (the «HPRB»), the BC Supreme Court found that a
registrar investigating a complaint and exercising a summary dismissal power under s. 32 (3) of the Health Professions Act (the «Act») was entitled to deference as to adequacy of the investigation in Moore v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, 2013 BCSC 2081.